Gardens start with a pencil and paper says Hephzibah Anderson

Music has lost its unpredictability, its thrilling fear while sport’s passion shines, says Norman Lebrecht

People are terrified of modernity’s great gift: the sudden freedom to make appalling noise, says Robert Thicknesse

Patrick Galbraith bags an unlikely deer: a roadkill roe buck

Thomas Woodham-Smith treasures a classic antiques street market

Joseph Connolly has never ridden a bike, drunk a pint of biiter or had a curry. Can you match his epic non-achievements?